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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) writing, feeling, and sleeping
(b) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(c) thinking, eating, and reading
(d) planning, acting, and rejoicing

2. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having insight into spiritual matters
(b) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(c) having natural innocence
(d) having a high IQ

3. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to allow for orderly disagreement
(b) to be like the other commonweaths around them
(c) to rid themselves of political uneasiness
(d) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms

4. What does the commonwealth need to successfully control the society?
(a) the cooperation of neighboring principalities
(b) power over people to administer punishments
(c) ample money to maintain the economy
(d) important welfare programs to help the poor

5. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?
(a) Education and experience
(b) Desire and fear
(c) Vocabulary and definitions
(d) Love and hate

6. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?
(a) Like a steam engine
(b) Like an artificial man
(c) Like a church
(d) Like an army

7. What is Hobbes' position on mothers and their children?
(a) Mothers will abandon their children.
(b) Mothers have no rights to children.
(c) The mother is the natural owner of the children.
(d) The state owns all children.

8. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?
(a) It is established in obedience, laws, peace, charity and civil society
(b) It is established on a basis of faith in God.
(c) It is established on scientific principles only.
(d) It is established on the basis of the good of the soverign.

9. Why can passion for power be dangerous?
(a) People cannot achieve it.
(b) People can be deceived.
(c) People can use evil means to get power.
(d) People can be electrocuted.

10. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?
(a) to work or play
(b) to live or die
(c) to talk or be quiet
(d) to live in misery or happiness

11. Where can a monarch go for advice?
(a) special elections
(b) counsel he has appointed for that purpose
(c) public opinion polls
(d) only to God

12. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?
(a) to scientific researsh
(b) to God and religion
(c) to imagination
(d) to ghosts and spirits

13. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the sovreign
(b) the teacher
(c) the banker
(d) the minister

14. Where does Hobbes insist people go when they disagree?
(a) To a priest
(b) To a judge
(c) To the boxing ring
(d) To a teacher

15. What seems to be a contradiction in Hobbes' attitude toward protest?
(a) People cannot protest but they can camgaign for change.
(b) People are legally able to protest a political system, but not against the sovereign.
(c) People can legally protest but they can only do it openly.
(d) People can protest but they cannot organize.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?

2. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?

3. What does Hobbes call the intention to do wrong or harm another?

4. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?

5. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?

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